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there are so many things that google markets poorly, or to the wrong audience. glass would have been amazing for industrial or many professional jobs, wave was
by rickycook 10y ago
there are so many things that google markets poorly, or to the wrong audience.
glass would have been amazing for industrial or many professional jobs, wave was a collaboration tool released to individuals, and now this where people want "an input device" for a niche application and would currently pay tens of thousands of dollars for such a thing.
it's really quite upsetting that all these fantastic technologies are wasted because of this push for "social" and mass market.
- MegaButts 10y agoLooking from the outside in, it seems the problem is with management. I have never worked at Google, but I know many people who have. None of them have said positive things about their managers. Obviously this is anecdotal, but I see little reason to believe otherwise.
- harrisonweber 10y agoOne big thing here is that Ara was part of ATAP which was acquired from Motorola (back when Google owned Motorola). So the culture of this project is an unusual one, even for Google. The heavy dependence on outside contractors probably made for a complicated setup, but I don't think that was the problem. From the outside, it feels like ATAP/Project Ara just ran the clock out. If they'd have gotten the phone done and ready to ship faster, maybe things would be different today.
- rrdharan 10y agoI work at Google, and have had several managers during my two stints at the company, all of whom I consider to be quite good.
- obmelvin 10y agoGlass is now being used for medical and industrial purposes